Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one of the most mysterious. Whale strandings are fairly routine in Alaska. But the latest, in which a ...
In a University of Washington-led paper published in the journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it’s sobering: Global shipping traffic overlaps with about ...
Natalie Rouse opened a large freezer on Thursday stocked with bags of assorted whale parts. “So here are pieces of blubber,” she said. “And then we’ve got a little bit of baleen in here. And then I ...